Richard Serra
Richard Serra
Richard Serrais an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal. Serra was involved in the Process Art Movement. He lives and works in Tribeca, New York, and on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth2 November 1939
CountryUnited States of America
subject work
The subject of the work is your experience, your walking,
american-sculptor basically close eyes material potential site terms walk
But basically I try to investigate the site in terms of its potential for interfacing some material so that if I close my eyes I can walk the land.
axes perception sculpture
Promenade was totally driven by the context. The internal relationships of measurement and placement related to the central axis of the site. The placement of the rectangular plates followed a strict logic in that the plates tilted away and towards the center line in an asymmetrical counterpoint. However, the perception of the sculpture contradicts the logic of its relation to the site. As you walk inbetween the plates you see fragments, you see the work in part, you cannot grasp the whole.
american-sculptor deciding taboo terms
Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.
american-sculptor decided
They've also, the government's decided now, what sexual content is.